A Liberal Democrat MP has been barred from Mumsnet after revealing the identities of other users and inadvertently publishing the name of an Italian woman whose baby was taken from her after being forced to have a Caesarean section.

One of television's biggest cliffhangers since who shot JR? will be solved on New Year's Day when millions of Sherlock fans find out how the master detective survived his rooftop leap at the end of the last series.

John Lewis has revealed that sales fell last week across all its London stores, compared with the same week a year ago, in the clearest sign yet that people are leaving their Christmas shopping later than ever.

Christmas has come early for the executives at the BBC. Dame Janet Smith’s report into the institutional culture that let Jimmy Savile get away with his predatory sexual behaviour for decades will now not be published until after the holiday season.